Oracle-L: Re: Finding overlapping time periods

From: Govindan K <gkatteri_at_omanmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:14:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5384.20031031131425@fatcity.com>

>there has to be an "guess work theory" about where the stuff the black
hole consumes
>ends up

Part of what is consumed is returned back to the universe in the form of X-Rays.

> and does it have the ability the grow at a rate proportional the the
volume it consumes?
No. Refer to "Hawking Radiation".

GovindanK

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Sent: 10/31/2003 12:35:25 PM
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Mladen,
The information might be excellent for the "lecture on the Space and Time Continuum" but a "black hole" will destroy all theories of anything overlapping when they are on the same plain. Of course there has to be an "guess work theory" about where the stuff the black hole consumes ends up, and does it have the ability the grow at a rate proportional the the volume it consumes?

Ron mª¿ªm

>>> mladen_at_wangtrading.com 10/31/03 02:54PM>>>
I have once been asked to suggest the solution for the same problem, and I have
suggested a solution which was out of this world, but completely in line with
my education of a mathematician. The project was scrapped and I didn't have an
opportunity to apply the solution.
To start describing the solution, let me remind you that overlapping areas of space
would be discovered by using spatial option. To apply the spatial option, you
need to define distance function. Temporal difference does satisfy the necessary
conditions for a distance function, as far as mathematics is concerned.
In mathematics, there is a structure called "metric space", which is, basically,
a set with a distance function. Distance function d ("metric") on set S is a function
d:S x S->R which satisfies the following two conditions:

d(x,y)>=0 for all x,y from S.
d(x,z)<=d(x,y)+d(y,z) for every x,y,z from S. (Cauchy inequality).

Points in time, with the difference in seconds do satisfy the above conditions, which means that you
can define geometry and use spatial option. Next lesson will be about Cauchy sequences, complete metric spaces, continuous functions, contractions
and Banach theorem. If Cary got away with queuing theory, why wouldn't I get away with some abstract
calculus and general topology?
As I've said earlier, I've never actually had an opportunity to actually apply this solution, but it
still looks quite elegant to me, despite it's apparent oddity.

On 10/31/2003 01:24:37 PM, babette.turnerunderwood_at_hrdc-drhc.gc.ca wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had the need to find overlapping time
periods and how to identify them efficiently.
>
> Here is the scenario:
>
> Elapsed minutes refer to the actual "clock" time either
spent on a given task. Thus an activity that started at 9:00 am and finished at 11:00 am on the same day is said to have 120 elapsed minutes.
> If one task overlaps another (either completely or
partially with another task), then the tasks are said to be "multitasked". In that case the system will store the portion of the elapsed time that was multitasked as "elapsed multitask minutes" and the portion of the time that was not overlapped as "elapsed single minutes". In addition, for the portion of time that two or more activities were simultaneously taking place; their time will be divided by the number of simultaneous activities and stored as "prorated multi minutes". The sum of Elapsed Single Minutes and Prorated Minutes will equal the actual clock time that a vehicle was active.
> The following example should help to illustrate these
concepts. In the table below a list of fictitious activities for a vehicle are shown in addition to how the time is allocated to the various measures:
> Activity Start Time End Time Elapsed Minutes Elapsed
Multitask Minutes Elapsed Single Minutes Prorated Multi Minutes Prorated Minutes
> 1 10:00 12:00 120 60 60 25 85
> 3 11:00 13:00 120 120 0 55 55
> 4 11:30 13:30 120 90 30 40 70
> 7 13:30 16:00 150 0 150 0 150
>

Totals 510 270 240 120 360
> The vehicle was active from 10:00 to 16:00, a total of 6 hours (360
minutes) which is equal to the total of Prorated Minutes.
> The vehicle performed 8 ½ hours (510 minutes) of work
during that 6-hour time span. This can be arrived at by adding the total of Elapsed Multitask Minutes (270) + the total of Elapsed Single Minutes (240).
>
>

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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Re: Finding overlapping time periods - suggestions please